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100 days of Government and very little to show
Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:
· Nama chief executive Brendan McDonagh almost became housing …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Can 'technocratic daddy' Mark Carney solve Canada's deep-rooted problems?
Canadian journalist Jen Gerson joins Hugh to talk about the results of Monday's federal election, which confirmed the once-unlikely comeback of the L…
10 months ago
Will there be a teacher’s strike in the autumn?
Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:
· Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday at the age …
10 months ago
How the Dublin Riots can be traced back to the Blueshirts
Cork-based author Pádraig Óg O'Ruairc joins Hugh Linehan to discuss his new book 'Burn Them Out; a history of fascism and the far right in Ireland’. …
10 months ago
Naomi Klein on conspiracies, climate and the 'personal brand'
This episode was first published in October 2023.
Naomi Klein shot to fame with her first book, No Logo, which offered an acute critique of how power…
10 months, 1 week ago
Fine Gael slumps as Sinn Féin returns to top spot in our poll
Pat Leahy and Harry McGee analyse the latest Irish Times / Ipsos B&A poll results, which show that Sinn Féin has regained its position as the most po…
10 months, 1 week ago
Will Europe cave to Trump's trade demands?
Cliff Taylor joins Pat Leahy to assess the latest developments in the trade war initiated by US president Donald Trump that threatens to upend the gl…
10 months, 1 week ago
How Morgan McSweeney put Keir Starmer in power
As the head of an organisation called Labour Together, which despite its name '"was all about dividing the Labour party and defeating the left", Iris…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Micheál Martin interview: Ireland will ‘resist’ EU tech tax
On Friday afternoon Taoiseach Micheál Martin talked to Hugh and Pat about a range of issues:
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Sanctimonious Soc Dems find themselves on shaky high moral ground
Harry McGee and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:
· The ‘Golden Age of America’ came and went over the cour…
10 months, 2 weeks ago